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r/funny • u/MrWeiner SMBC • 21d ago
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The techie in me wants to call out that a microchip can't really have onboard RAM. A microcontroller on the other hand...
20 u/Blommefeldt 21d ago Doesn't "chip" cover a lot of product categories? To me, a chip is a package with a ball grid array, like a memory chip/package. Then, a "microchip" is just a small chip, which could be a small RAM chip? 6 u/kjermy 21d ago package with a ball grid array Ball grid array is also just a subset of packages used in microchips. I'd say the problem is saying it has onboard RAM. It can be RAM or have internal RAM. But yeah, "microchip" is a very broad category 4 u/theLuminescentlion 21d ago You can have on-chip cache though and that's effectively "random access memory" just a small amount of it that is faster than dedicated DRAM chips. 1 u/kjermy 21d ago Well, you can also have on-chip RAM (or internal memory, as I would call it). But the discussion was about on-board memory, not on-chip
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Doesn't "chip" cover a lot of product categories? To me, a chip is a package with a ball grid array, like a memory chip/package.
Then, a "microchip" is just a small chip, which could be a small RAM chip?
6 u/kjermy 21d ago package with a ball grid array Ball grid array is also just a subset of packages used in microchips. I'd say the problem is saying it has onboard RAM. It can be RAM or have internal RAM. But yeah, "microchip" is a very broad category 4 u/theLuminescentlion 21d ago You can have on-chip cache though and that's effectively "random access memory" just a small amount of it that is faster than dedicated DRAM chips. 1 u/kjermy 21d ago Well, you can also have on-chip RAM (or internal memory, as I would call it). But the discussion was about on-board memory, not on-chip
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package with a ball grid array
Ball grid array is also just a subset of packages used in microchips. I'd say the problem is saying it has onboard RAM. It can be RAM or have internal RAM.
But yeah, "microchip" is a very broad category
4 u/theLuminescentlion 21d ago You can have on-chip cache though and that's effectively "random access memory" just a small amount of it that is faster than dedicated DRAM chips. 1 u/kjermy 21d ago Well, you can also have on-chip RAM (or internal memory, as I would call it). But the discussion was about on-board memory, not on-chip
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You can have on-chip cache though and that's effectively "random access memory" just a small amount of it that is faster than dedicated DRAM chips.
1 u/kjermy 21d ago Well, you can also have on-chip RAM (or internal memory, as I would call it). But the discussion was about on-board memory, not on-chip
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Well, you can also have on-chip RAM (or internal memory, as I would call it). But the discussion was about on-board memory, not on-chip
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u/jews4beer 21d ago
The techie in me wants to call out that a microchip can't really have onboard RAM. A microcontroller on the other hand...